Smart Materials and Shape Memory Alloys for Sustainable and Resilient Building and Engineering Structures: Innovations and Applications
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 137
Special Issue Editors
Interests: shape memory alloys; sustainable construction; smart materials, concrete buildings; computational mechanics
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Interests: resilient structures; sustainable materials; advanced composites; smart shape memory materials; self-healing materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Smart materials and shape memory alloys (SMAs) are enabling a new class of sustainable and resilient building and engineering structures that can adapt, self-recover, and reduce lifecycle impacts. This Special Issue will gather advances that translate material-level functionalities, shaping memory effect, superelasticity, damping, thermally activated actuation and other emerging technologies for adaptive or kinetic facades, into design-ready solutions for buildings and infrastructure.
We welcome contributions on SMA/Fe-SMA reinforcement for self-prestressing and crack control, seismic self-centering and energy dissipation devices, emerging technologies for adaptive or kinetic façades and deployable systems, multi-scale and digital-twin modelling, durability and corrosion behavior, long-term monitoring and control, and the life-cycle assessment and circularity of smart structural systems. Experimental studies, numerical/analytical developments, and full-scale demonstrations that quantify performance, robustness, and sustainability benefits are particularly encouraged.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Buildings.
Dr. Alireza Tabrizikahou
Dr. Faisal Mukhtar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- shape memory alloys (SMA)
- smart materials
- adaptive facade
- kinetic facade
- resilient infrastructure
- self-centering systems
- self-prestressing
- structural health monitoring
- digital twins
- life-cycle assessment
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